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Tag: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Escaping Slavery into Ontario: Underground Railroad Spawned Afro-Canadian Communities

As a 12 year-old, I launched my understanding of the 1960’s civil rights movement with the Civil War, the slave aboltionists and  Harriet Tubman.  She was an Afro-American former slave who helped some slaves escape to Canada by using the Underground Railroad, a loose network of people who guided  30,000 escapees secretly northward. I had heard of the…

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